Perfume Genius Announces New Album

Listen to "All Waters" from Put Your Back N 2 It

On February 21, Matador will release the next album from Seattle songwriter Mike Hadreas, aka Perfume Genius. It's called Put Your Back N 2 It, and follows his excellent 2010 album Learning.

Hadreas notes in a press release that the opening cut, "AWOL Marine", is about "the desperation, demoralization and soullessness that comes with addiction," inspired by "some unedited homemade basement porn I watched." The track "17" is "basically a gay suicide letter," and another, "Take Me Home", is "a pop song about hookerism." The track "Dirge" is based on a 1921 poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, while the title track is "about gay sex."

Check out the tracklisting, as well as Perfume Genius' current tour dates with Beirut, below. Also below, watch Perfume Genius perform a Learning outtake for Pitchfork.tv.